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See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese

Romanization

arca

  1. Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Galician

Pedra da Arca dolmen, Vimianzo, Galicia

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. (nautical, dated) starboard
    Synonym: estribor
    Synonyms: couso, babor

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark; chest; coffer
    Synonym: hucha
  2. box; casket
    Synonym: couselo
  3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
  4. dolmen, megalith
    Synonyms: anta, forno
  5. thoracic cavity
    Synonym: cavidade torácica
Derived terms

References

Hungarian

Etymology

arc (face) +‎ -a (his/her/its, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc
    Felderült az arca.His/her face brightened.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative arca
accusative arcát
dative arcának
instrumental arcával
causal-final arcáért
translative arcává
terminative arcáig
essive-formal arcaként
essive-modal arcául
inessive arcában
superessive arcán
adessive arcánál
illative arcába
sublative arcára
allative arcához
elative arcából
delative arcáról
ablative arcától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
arcáé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
arcáéi

Derived terms

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, worship, idol).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. idol, a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.ka/
  • Rhymes: -arka
  • Hyphenation: àr‧ca

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

  1. chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
  2. coffin (box for the dead)
  3. ark (kind of ship)
    1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Noah's Ark
  4. (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arca arcae
Genitive arcae arcārum
Dative arcae arcīs
Accusative arcam arcās
Ablative arcā arcīs
Vocative arca arcae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: arca
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arca, archa
  • Old Spanish: arca, archa
  • Albanian: arkë
  • Czech: archa
  • Proto-Germanic: *arkō (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: arca
  • Latvian: arka
  • Lithuanian: arka
  • Macedonian: арка (arka)
  • Maltese: arka
  • Norman: arche
  • Old English: ærc
  • Old French: arche
  • Old Irish: árc, áirc
  • Old Polish: archa (learned) (see there for further descendants)
  • Romanian: arca
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: арка
    Latin script: arka
  • Slovak: archa
  • Welsh: arch
  • Cornish: argh
  • Breton: arc'h

References

  • arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • arca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • arca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
  • arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Malay

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Etymology

From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, worship, idol).

Pronunciation

Noun

arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca, informal 1st possessive arcaku, 2nd possessive arcamu, 3rd possessive arcanya)

  1. (uncommon, dated, archaic) sculpture, idol
    Synonym: (more common) patung
  2. a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
  3. (computing) icon

Usage notes

For sense 1, "arca" refers to statues built from pre-Islamic times, especially idols and statues of kings.

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

Pronunciation

Noun

arca

  1. image, cult-statue

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • "arca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -aɾkɐ
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, borrowed from Latin arca. First attested in 1109.[1]

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark
    • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, →ISBN:
      ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?
      ... a certain type of «divisions» that would allow him to arrange his papers «in due order», in order to replace his «big box» (the famous and mythical ark?) ...) ...
  2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)
  3. (malacology) ark clam (mollusc in the genus Arca)
  4. (dated) coffer (strong chest used for keeping valuables safe)
  5. (by extension, dated) coffer (a supply of money belonging to an organization)
  6. (dated) thorax
  7. (Brazil, colloquial) pawnshop
    Synonym: casa de penhores
  8. (Trás-os-Montes) hug
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arca

  1. inflection of arcar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ José Pedro Machado (1995) “Arca”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 296

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (chest, box), from arceō (to enclose).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾka/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Syllabification: ar‧ca

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark, chest
    Synonym: cofre

Usage notes

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el arca, un arca
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

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